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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Genes, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and evolution.
(c) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and transposition.

2. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) Its genetic composition.
(b) Its ease of study.
(c) The length of its generations.
(d) The length of its chromosomes.

3. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Fuse.
(b) Genderate.
(c) Anneal.
(d) Conjoin.

4. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Permutation.
(b) Transferration.
(c) Correspondence.
(d) Transposition.

5. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?
(a) The room number the class was in.
(b) Her name.
(c) The name of the class.
(d) Her teacher's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

2. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

3. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?

4. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

5. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?

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